Now he wants to tell his story to encourage people to get themselves checked.

“If one person reads my story and gets themselves checked then all the pain I am going through won’t be for nothing,” said Iain.

“I was ignored, brushed off from the beginning, even though my father went through the same thing.

“Doctors said I was too young. But then it gets to the point where it’s too late.”

Iain first noticed his symptoms in February, 2013.

However, it wasn’t until after an operation in July, he received his diagnosis.

“After a few days on the surgical ward I saw the surgeon who performed my operation.

“What happened next is as clear in my mind now as it was back then.

Iain and Hannah on their wedding day in September, shorlty after Iain received his diagnosis SUS-150414-111519001

“He told me they removed cancer from my bowel and noted it had spread to my peritoneum, meaning it wasn’t curable.

“I was 30, in the prime of my life with everything going good for me and suddenly, out of the blue I was being told I had cancer. As if that wasn’t a hard enough kick in the stomach I was then told there was no cure.”